Amid Tubbataha brouhaha, militants picket US embassy

ABS-CBN News

MANILA, Philippines – Several members of the militant group League of Filipino Students (LFS) on Friday morning held a lightning rally at the US Embassy in Manila to protest the grounding of a US Navy warship on the Tubbataha Reef.

Some 15 student-activitsts threw red paint at the logo and gate of the US Embassy to protest the destruction of the coral reefs in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization-declared heritage site by the grounded USS Guardian.